mention of the congress. Judging by this, they will not come. Of course, who can know for certain? I am prepared for the worst: a split on our side, but I consider this improbable. Could you not have at least gotten Deich's most vile boasting recorded in the minutes? After all, this is outrageous!! Such audacity could not even have been expected. It was necessary to pin him down in the protocol, to publish a list of "their" groups or at least to pass this protocol on to the congress so as to show the Russians the bottomless audacity of these gentlemen.

I shake your hand. N. Lenin

Written in Geneva

First published in 1926

in Leninist Miscellany V

Printed from the manuscript